Rujak Manis

Sweet salad is a kind of salad. Made from fresh fruit with spicy sweet sauce. Fruits are used among other things: young mango, yam, salak, which is almost ripe papaya, kedondong, guava, cucumber, starfruit, and others. Sauce that is used is made from palm sugar, peanut, tamarind, salt, lime, and chili.

Presentation

Fruit peeled, washed and thinly sliced​​. Ingredients for sauce mashed and given little water so thick. Sauce then poured over the fruit before eaten.

The tradition associated with salad

In Java salad is one important element in the ceremony of seven monthly. When a pregnant woman and the age of its contents have entered the age of seven months, seven ceremony will be held monthly. One of the foods available at the ceremony was the salad. Unlike the usual salad, salad used in this ceremony using material in the form of fruits in season and retrieval (tubers that are usually used for herbs or spices and taste bitter.) Finish salad ceremony was distributed to guests in attendance. There is a belief that if most of the guests have met in rujaknya then the child who was conceived was a boy. Whereas if the salad was fresh taste as usual salad then conceived it are girls.